News

CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate student Jess Keating (Social, mentored by Leaf Van Boven) was in the news recently, appearing as an expert panelist on the Aaron Harber Show debate watch party a few weeks ago during the Republican debate held in Boulder.

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience members Sarah Banchefsky (Social postdoc), Sarah Grover (Social graduate student), Professor Tiffany Ito (Social), Erin McPherson (Social graduate student), and Professor Bernadette Park (Social) participated in CU-Boulder Diversity and Inclusion Summit 2015 held November 10 and 11.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate student Jane Barker (Cognitive) and her mentor Professor Yuko Munakata (Cognitive) were in the news, with some of their recent research getting mentioned in a press release on the Association for Psychological Science (APS) website.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor June Gruber (Clinical and Social) was in the popular press in an APA “Science Brief” highlighting her research on the potential negative aspects of positive emotions.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor and Director of ICS Marie Banich (Cognitive) was in the news, getting interviewed by Colorado Public Radio on the show “Colorado Matters” regarding the national ABCD grant she is part of to study adolescent drug use...

CU Psychology and Neuroscience faculty-member-to-be (Fall, 2016) Zoe Donaldson was in the news as a result of some research presented recently at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate student Dan Gustavson (Cognitive, mentored by Akira Miyake) was in the news regarding his research on possible genetic links between executive function (EF) and procrastination.

The Learning Assistant (LA) Program, an endeavor started at CU-Boulder over 10 years ago, has grown into an international enterprise. The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience is one several departments on campus actively and increasingly engaged with the LA program.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor and Director of ICS Marie Banich was in the news for being one of the recipients of a landmark multi-institutional, multi-investigator set of grants from NIH to study the effects of substance abuse on the developing brain.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience Senior Instructor David Allen was commended by ASSETT for his participation in ASSETT's Survivor Strategies: Teaching Large Enrollment Classes video series...